chernobyl disaster

chernobyl disaster

Chernobyl nuclear accident of April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine (then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union).

Chernobyl (Chernobyl "in Ukrainian) is a city that is clear, River Pripyat, Ukraine, located in the north. Almost by chance the name of Lenin nuclear power plant is about 25 km upstream.

Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl in Ukraine is a nuclear fission powered by electricity and can generate four times the power

Huntly.Chernobyl in 1986 was the result of structural damage to the reactor by a qualified majority

But from May 1926 at 01:23 clock in April 1986 a nuclear test could not conquer the world's worst nuclear disaster, and then replace more than 200,000 people directly and killing 54 people and rescue teams more.

The disaster occurred April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near the town of Pripyat, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the test system

On 26 April, a city of anonymity during the trial in 1:21, N. 4 reactor exploded and released after 1930-1940 the radioactivity of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The world learned of a serious nuclear accident in the history of Sweden, where abnormal levels of radiation in a nuclear registered.

Despite the accident, moves in the remaining reactors at Chernobyl in Ukraine, worked for years. The last reactor was closed in force in 2000, 14 years after the accident

as a major industrial accident in history, after the Chernobyl disaster and its impact on the course of Soviet events can not be overstated. No one can predict that, finally, the exact number of human victims. Thirty-one people died on the spot. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians have left all the towns and villages in the area of ​​30 km of high pollution.

Scientific Committee noted that, in addition to an increase in thyroid cancer, "no evidence of a significant impact on public health due to exposure to radiation 20 years after the accident.